Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary7,993
• Residents20,205
• ZIP Code areas it reaches11
• Where it is the only district1
• Where it shares with another district9
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area140 square miles
• Homes per square mile57

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 66542 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 66619 it holds 5 homes, under half a percent. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

• ZIP Code 66542 · Tecumseh, Kansas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66409 · Topeka, Kansas97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66609 · Topeka, Kansas48% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66605 · Topeka, Kansas34% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66546 · Wakarusa, Kansas21% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66050 · Lecompton, Kansas20% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66607 · Topeka, Kansas14% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66524 · Overbrook, Kansas2.5% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66616 · Topeka, Kansas2.2% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66414 · Carbondale, Kansas1.1% of the homes
• ZIP Code 66619 · Topeka, Kansas5 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,858 of the 6,164 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 is the largest name in ZIP Code 66609 · Topeka, Kansas and still holds a minority of it: 1,661 of 3,479 homes. The other 1,818 homes are with Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501 and Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 holds 1,248 of the 1,288 homes in ZIP Code 66409 · Topeka, Kansas, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 40 homes with Perry Public Schools Unified School District 343 and Lawrence Unified School District 497.

In ZIP Code 66542 · Tecumseh, Kansas the single-name answer is the true one: Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 holds all 1,397 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 reaches into ZIP Code 66605 · Topeka, Kansas with 2,802 of its 8,151 homes, behind Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,802 homes.

ZIP Code 66607 · Topeka, Kansas is another area where Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 is present without being the answer: 525 of its 3,837 homes, behind Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501.

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 reaches into ZIP Code 66050 · Lecompton, Kansas with 159 of its 781 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Perry Public Schools Unified School District 343 leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 159 homes.

ZIP Code 66546 · Wakarusa, Kansas is another area where Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 is present without being the answer: 97 of its 459 homes, behind Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437.

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 66616 · Topeka, Kansas — Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501 leads it — and Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 holds 59 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501, Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 and Santa Fe Trail Unified School District 434. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 50112,513 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 4372,165 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Santa Fe Trail Unified School District 4342,093 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Perry Public Schools Unified School District 343644 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• West Franklin Unified School District 28782 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Baldwin City Unified School District 34862 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 501, Lawrence Unified School District 497, Santa Fe Trail Unified School District 434 and Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

• Topeka Public Schools Unified School District 5014 shared ZIP areas
• Lawrence Unified School District 4973 shared ZIP areas
• Santa Fe Trail Unified School District 4343 shared ZIP areas
• Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 4372 shared ZIP areas
• Perry Public Schools Unified School District 3432 shared ZIP areas
• Baldwin City Unified School District 3481 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Kansas480 of 702 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 9 of the 11 ZIP Code areas Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.